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WILLIAM PEARCE, OF PLANTSVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND M, N. WOODRUFF AND N. A. BARNES, BOTH OF SOUTHINGTON, CONN.

METHOD OF FORGING OX-SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 314,192, dated March 17, 1885.

tion thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower dies used for the forging of shoes. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same as arranged for forging the ordinary form of shoe. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a blank and a completed shoe connected together, and with the bar as left by the preliminary and finishing dies shown in Fig. 1. Fig.4 is a like view of the same as left by the dies shown in Fig. 2, and Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively perspective views of the trimming-dies used in connection with the dies shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The design of my invention is to enable oxshoes to be more easily, quickly, and cheaply produced by means of dies, to which end said invention consists in the method employed for forging oX-shoes, whereby a saving in.t-ime and material is secured and a better article produced, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the carrying into effect of my invention- I make use of two forging-dies, A and B,which, for convenience, are formed withinone block of metal and are arranged side by side, but may, if desired, be formed separately. The

. first of said dies, A, has the general size and line with the transverse centers of the calkrecesses a and a, in which position said bar is subjected to the action of a plainfaced up per die and caused to fill the cavities of said die A. The partially-forged shoe 0 is now placed over the second die, B, and by means of said upper die is forced into the same and receives the exact shape required, including the nail-groove c.

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In order that shoes may be forged directly from a bar, at each end of each die A or B is formed an outward and downward inclined face, a or b, respectively, which operates to produce a A-shaped transverse notch, c, at each end of the shoe (J, and nearly severs the metal at such point. v

After the first shoe G has been partially completed by action of the die A, the heated bar is moved forward until the notch c at its rear end fits over the correspondiugly-shaped part that lies between the calk-recess a and the ad .jacent inclined face (6 and thus operates as a gage and enables the longitudinal position of the bar to be-easily and accurately determined.

After shoe 0 has passed through the finishingdie B, itis placed over a female trimmingdie, D, within which is an opening, (I, that corresponds to the outline of the completed shoe, and is then operated upon by an upper male die, E, which forces said shoe through said opening and removes all surplus metal from its edges. In order that said shoe, when connected with the bar, may more readily find a bearing upon said lowertrimming-die,the ends of the latter are provided with inclined faces at, which correspond to the faces a and b of the dies A and B.

The dies shown and described are not claimed herein, as they form the subject of a separate application for patent. 7

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of. my invention, what I claim is As an improvement in the forging of oxshoes, the hereinbefore-described method,consistingin the placing of astraight bar of heated metal having less width than the finished shoe over the intaglio of a die which roughly corresponds to the required size and shape, and by blows from a plain-faced upper die causing said metal to fill said die, then placing the partially-forged shoe within and cansing it to fill the intaglio of a second or finishing die, and, lastly, removing the surplus metal from the edges of said shoe, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of February, A. D. 1885.

WILLIAM PEARCE. Witnesses:

Anson BRADLEY, MARCUS H. HOLOOMB. 

